So some Wii U spec leaks start looking very likely....

We seen some leaks lately and some of them look pretty real.

CPU: IBM Power7 Quad-Core CPU at 3.0 Ghz (Cores having four threads each, for a total of 16 threads)

Chance of Occuring? Very Likely.

Why? Nintendo has been using IBM chips for their consoles for a good while now. Gamecube had it and so did the Wii.

The IBM Power7 chip line was created by IBM and released in 2010. These things will blow and blow and blow anything the 360 and PS3 by large margins.

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eDRAM: 32MB

Chance of Occuring? Very Likely.

Why? Well 32MB of eDRAM is good step forward from this generation, and it will supply the CPU with a good amount of RAM. In comparision, the Xbox 360 has only 10MB, while the Wii has only 4MB.

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GPU:"unknown," 40-nanometer GPU from ATI/AMD."

Chance of Occuring? Very Likely.

Why? Nintendo has used ATI chips for their two past consoles. Both the Gamecube and Wii use ATI graphics. Why stop it now?

It is unknown what graphics chip the Wii U will use though. All we know is that it can be a ATI 4xxx or ATI 5xxx series chip. Still a very good step forward from the dinosaur hardware consoles have now.

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RAM: "around 768MB or one gigabyte"

Chance of Occuring? Who Knows.

Why? Well the leak didn't specify what RAM they were talking about. vRAM, MRAM, or uRAM. For all we know, it can be one of all three.

Maybe its 1GB of Main Ram and 768MB of vRAM. Who knows?

Best to not judge that one.

Note* - Before anyone starts saying, Oh RAM is soo cheap now-a-days. Well yes, its cheap, ON PC!!! Console's don't have standarized chips. These things need to be made smaller AND, be made just for that one machine. This can become very costly. Don't compare Console RAM with PC RAM. They aren't very similar like many of you want to think.

Conculsion: The Wii U, based on leaks, will not just be a margin upgrade from the PS3 and Xbox 360. It already is showing that is a good step forward from the Dino-ware console gamers use right now. In my opinion, Nintendo could reach a nice balance between cheapness of console and hardware performance. We don't want another $599 console that will teach usdiscipline, now do we?

I hope Nintendo takes back its place of "king of graphics" next Gen.Kaszilla

I hope Nintendo takes back its place of "king of graphics" next Gen.Kaszilla

[QUOTE="Kaszilla"]I hope Nintendo takes back its place of "king of graphics" next Gen.ActionRemix

[QUOTE="Kaszilla"]I hope Nintendo takes back its place of "king of graphics" next Gen.ActionRemix

[QUOTE="Kaszilla"]I hope Nintendo takes back its place of "king of graphics" next Gen.silversix_

[QUOTE="silversix_"]

[QUOTE="Kaszilla"]I hope Nintendo takes back its place of "king of graphics" next Gen.Kaszilla

I believe Nintendo has kinda pointed out that the new system will be only slightly more powerful than the current gen Xbox 360/PS3. The AMD R700 (rumored to be the GPU it will use) is already outdated and the best GPU's would be considered middle of the road/mainstream at this point.... that is assuming the specs are going to be close to one of the released GPU's and not some custom designed one based off that chip.

On the bright side, people will actually be able to play games at 1920x1080 on a console but the graphics wont look much better than the other consoles right now.

I hope Nintendo takes back its place of "king of graphics" next Gen.Kaszilla

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[QUOTE="Kaszilla"]I hope Nintendo takes back its place of "king of graphics" next Gen.Kaszilla

PS2 = Wii U. Gamecube = Xbox Next. Xbox = PS4.ShadowDeathX

[QUOTE="ShadowDeathX"]PS2 = Wii U. Gamecube = Xbox Next. Xbox = PS4.ActionRemix

[QUOTE="ShadowDeathX"]PS2 = Wii U. Gamecube = Xbox Next. Xbox = PS4.ActionRemix

Quite possible. Call of Duty sells in tons and isn't a good looking game.

What about Halo and Gears of War?? Perhaps Microsoft will shift those to PC, but that would be weird.

The Dreamcast kicked ass, Soul Calibur looks better than any PS2 game.Spartan070

[QUOTE="ActionRemix"][QUOTE="ShadowDeathX"]

Quite possible. Call of Duty sells in tons and isn't a good looking game.

What about Halo and Gears of War?? Perhaps Microsoft will shift those to PC, but that would be weird.

ShadowDeathX

[QUOTE="Spartan070"]The Dreamcast kicked ass, Soul Calibur looks better than any PS2 game.Cherokee_Jack

There was this guy somewhere commenting something like 'look at the... cpu... ram... bridge'? Something like that? And he said, it's clearly wrong. And then other people agreed so I don't think they're the real specs. Sorry I'm not a techy.

Soul Calibur 2 on Gamecube has aged extremely well. ActionRemix

Even on PS2 it looked good.

Soulcalibur on DC still looks OK but that's all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQXKNLtcVNI

[QUOTE="ActionRemix"][QUOTE="ShadowDeathX"]PS2 = Wii U. Gamecube = Xbox Next. Xbox = PS4.Spartan070

There was this guy somewhere commenting something like 'look at the... cpu... ram... bridge'? Something like that? And he said, it's clearly wrong. And then other people agreed so I don't think they're the real specs. Sorry I'm not a techy.

KungfuKitten

[QUOTE="Kaszilla"]I hope Nintendo takes back its place of "king of graphics" next Gen.nintendoboy16

[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"][QUOTE="Kaszilla"]I hope Nintendo takes back its place of "king of graphics" next Gen.Kaszilla

i'd still wait for an 'official' statement by Nintendo..

[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"][QUOTE="Kaszilla"]I hope Nintendo takes back its place of "king of graphics" next Gen.Kaszilla

Didn't Jaguar have the superior hardwarep4s2p0

Superior to the SNES, but it came out in '93 and competed more with the Playstation (which was much more powerful).

And while SNES did own the Genesis, there was the NEO-GEO console, which was stronger than both.nintendoboy16

[QUOTE="p4s2p0"]Didn't Jaguar have the superior hardwareCherokee_Jack

Superior to the SNES, but it came out in '93 and competed more with the Playstation (which was much more powerful).

[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"][QUOTE="Kaszilla"]I hope Nintendo takes back its place of "king of graphics" next Gen.Kaszilla

[QUOTE="Kaszilla"][QUOTE="nintendoboy16"] Which they never really had...nintendoboy16

[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"]And while SNES did own the Genesis, there was the NEO-GEO console, which was stronger than both.Cherokee_Jack

[QUOTE="Kaszilla"][QUOTE="nintendoboy16"] Which they never really had...p4s2p0

Jaguar had superior HW to SNES (not even close to N64 though and it is considered fifth gen afaik) but it came out too late and sold about 200k units (lol), so its not very relevant...

its funny how ppl go crazy over a stupid fanboy's blog with fake specs. RAM is important, WiiU needs more. No one is asking for 500gb of RAM, but a nice 2gb would be good.

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"][QUOTE="nintendoboy16"]And while SNES did own the Genesis, there was the NEO-GEO console, which was stronger than both.nintendoboy16

Soul Calibur 2 on Gamecube has aged extremely well. ActionRemix

[QUOTE="RyviusARC"][QUOTE="ActionRemix"]Soul Calibur 2 on Gamecube has aged extremely well. AtariKidX

Sure......Soul Calibur 2 on GC it looks good on PC emulation.:P

I'll tell you one thing, it sure as hell will have more than 768 mb's of ram.

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[QUOTE="RyviusARC"] It sure has.nintendoboy16

Sure......Soul Calibur 2 on GC it looks good on PC emulation.:P

[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"][QUOTE="AtariKidX"]

Sure......Soul Calibur 2 on GC it looks good on PC emulation.:P

AtariKidX

using a ibm cpu is stupid.

Why the **** not just use a intel core2 quadcore oh i know why they're cheap bastards rather save money instead of having better performance.

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Sure......Soul Calibur 2 on GC it looks good on PC emulation.:P

AtariKidX

How can that be when both consoles were very easy to program for and they're similar in power? And the fact it was an EARLY multiplat?

I remember Soulcal 2. That game was awesome. I only got it because Link was in the game honestly :P But it turned out good.